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deli

/ˈdɛli/

deli noun: a shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.

Noun

deli (plural delis)

  1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
    • Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains.
    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021, page 32
  2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

Proper noun capitalized: Deli

Deli (plural Delis)

  1. A surname.

deli meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

deli in Tamil

கொ

deli in Bengali

ডেলি

deli in Telugu

డెలి, డెలీ

deli in Malayalam

ഡെലി, ദെലി
More languagesFewer languages
deli in Kannada
ಡೆಲಿ, ದೆಲಿ
deli in Gujarati
ડેલી
deli in Odia
ଡେଲି

Examples of deli in a sentence

  • Where rectangular storage containers make a mess of mismatched lids and sometimes unstackable shapes, the ordinary cylindrical deli cups used for food delivery are far superior.2019 April 3, Janelle Zara, “How to Organize Your Kitchen Like a Professional Chef”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the...
  • Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

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Forms of deli

Noun
pluraldelis
Proper noun
pluralDelis

Origin of deli

Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.

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Phrases with deli

Words that rhyme with deli

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Questions about deli

What does deli mean?
Deli means a shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
What is deli in Tamil?
Deli in Tamil is கொ. See Deli meaning in Tamil.
How do you use deli in a sentence?
Where rectangular storage containers make a mess of mismatched lids and sometimes unstackable shapes, the ordinary cylindrical deli cups used for food delivery are far superior.
What part of speech is deli?
Deli can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce deli?
Deli is pronounced /ˈdɛli/.
What is the plural of deli?
The plural of deli is delis.

Words near deli in the dictionary

  1. Delhians
  2. Delhiite
  3. Delhiites
  4. Delhite
  5. Delhites
  6. deli
  7. deli meat
  8. deli meats
  9. delia
  10. Delia effect
  11. Deliah

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deli (page history and authors); Deli (page history and authors); deli (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deli (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deli (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deli (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deli (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deli (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deli (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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